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Goose and duck hunters build these blinds on the calm waterways of Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Duck blind
Tree roots are underminded by wave action and eventually succumb while the shoreline is eroded.
Eroded shoreline with tree snags
Mother duck and ducklings paddle around a river cove off Lake Michigan.
Female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and ducklings
Stone rip-rap installed by the property owners in an attempt to prevent shoreline erosion. Hardened edges along the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers reduces natural shoreline habitat that fish and other marine animals depend on for food and shelter.
Hardened shoreline prevents erosion
Found on golf courses or vacant gravell parking lots, this noisy plover is best known for its
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest in busy…
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata)
This emergent aquatic, with its leaves and flowers above water and portions of the stem under water, is found typically in shallow, quiet water. The seeds can be eaten like nuts and the young leaf-stalks cooked as greens. Deer also feed on these plants. The common name suggests that this plant, as well as the fish known as pickerel, occupy the same habitat.
Pickeral rush (Pontederia cordata) occupies…
The oldest type of net used by the Chesapeake Bay watermen is called a pound net. Wooden stakes are pushed into the bottom of the Bay, spaced apart in a line that runs across the tide. Nets are strung between the stakes and along the bottom of the river, making a fish trap. In late February the pound netter starts to put in the stakes. By the middle of March he will set his nets and start fishing. Each day the waterman goes out to the pound net and scoops the fish out with a hand net. He will not remove the pound net, except for many repairs, until November.
Pound net
These traditional boats tended to the oyster fleets working the beds in the Bay, buying harvested oysters from the oystermen in the afternoon, and running those oysters to faraway markets and rail centers in Norfolk, Crisfield, Baltimore, and Washington DC, and to local shucking houses and canneries around the Bay.
Restored Chesapeake Bay oyster buy boat
A conceptual diagram illustrates the practice of planting or maintaining buffer vegetation along the water's edge.
Buffer Vegetation as a Key Stewardship Behavior
A conceptual diagram illustrates the factors that cause brown tide algae blooms to occur in high magnitudes and what impacts these blooms have on the rest of the ecosystem.
Causes and Impacts of Brown Tide Algal Blooms
A graph illustrates the issue that the use of nitrogen fertilizers in Maryland has more than doubled since 1970.
Increased Nitrogen Fertilizer Use in Maryland…
A graph depicts the trend of increasing prorocentrum minimum levels since 1970 in the Chesapeake Bay.
Prorocentrum Minimum Levels since 1970
A map depicts the general distribution of several of Maryland's common harmful algal blooms, in the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays.
The Distributions of Common Harmful Algal Blooms…
A conceptual diagram illustrates the seven key stewardship behaviors that can greatly impact the health of the watershed.
The Seven Key Stewardship Behaviors to Promote…
A baby terrapin makes its way to the water.
Baby diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin
A blue heron scans the water for its fish dinner. On a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
A blue heron waits on a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
A diagram illustrates the the current issues facing the inland wetland ecosystem on Assateague Island as well as the impacts climate change will have on this area.
Climate Change Effects on Assateague Island's…
A diagram illustrates the current conditions of the intertidal beach ecosystem on Assateague Island and shows the impact climate change will have on this area.
Climate Change Effects on Assateague Island's…
A diagram illustrates the factors related to climate change and how these factors will impact the species and habitat on Assateague Island.
Climate Change Factors and their Impacts on…
A diagram illustrates the current conditions of the forest and shrub ecosystem on Assateague Island and shows the impacts climate change will likely have on native species in this area.
Climate Change Impacts on Assateague's Forest…
A conceptual diagram illustrates the current issues that bay subtidal and mudflat habitats face as well as the problems they are likely to face in the future as climate change impacts this ecosystem.
Effects of Climate Change on the Bay Subtidal and…
A diagram illustrates the impacts climate change will have on Assateague Island across several different ecosystems.
The Widespread Effects of Climate Change on…
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